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dairydead wrote:At the end of the day, what made me mad is that they really took this opportunity to embarrass Zechs and put him in a place where he felt completely uncomfortable. Its dirty as hell, and pretty despicable. It makes me think of a hypothetical where a kid would go over to a friend's house and the kid would get a spanking from, or a lecture from another parent. Its completely inappropriate to put a child in that situation, as its inappropriate to put Zechs in a situation where he would have to answer to the actions of this site as a whole. Zechs approached this situation as a fan looking to talk to some of his favorite writers, but got insulted and humiliated instead. The worst thing about this is that we aren't talking about sarcastic Jude or Ru here, this is Zechs who is as harmless and well-meaning as journalists can get.

All of this comes across as DC seeing an easy target (knowing Zechs wasn't about to fight them about this) and taking advantage of it. Again, I'm just glad I wasn't there at the moment, or else we might be talking about something else.

Couldn't agree more. They took the humiliate the person in front of them. There is no excuse to treat someone like they did Zechs.

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dairydead wrote:At the end of the day, what made me mad is that they really took this opportunity to embarrass Zechs and put him in a place where he felt completely uncomfortable. Its dirty as hell, and pretty despicable. It makes me think of a hypothetical where a kid would go over to a friend's house and the kid would get a spanking from, or a lecture from another parent. Its completely inappropriate to put a child in that situation, as its inappropriate to put Zechs in a situation where he would have to answer to the actions of this site as a whole. Zechs approached this situation as a fan looking to talk to some of his favorite writers, but got insulted and humiliated instead. The worst thing about this is that we aren't talking about sarcastic Jude or Ru here, this is Zechs who is as harmless and well-meaning as journalists can get.

All of this comes across as DC seeing an easy target (knowing Zechs wasn't about to fight them about this) and taking advantage of it. Again, I'm just glad I wasn't there at the moment, or else we might be talking about something else.

Couldn't agree more. They took the humiliate the person in front of them. There is no excuse to treat someone like they did Zechs.

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You think back to the mythology that Stan Lee created in the 60s that Marvel were fun and cool and DC were stuffy dicks, and you think, nah, that's not true anymore, both companies are massive corporate jugger-dicks now.

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You think back to the mythology that Stan Lee created in the 60s that Marvel were fun and cool and DC were stuffy dicks, and you think, nah, that's not true anymore, both companies are massive corporate jugger-dicks now.

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Lord Simian wrote:You always could, they don't care about the forums. But DC doesn't want US doing it, because the only type of coverage a website should give a product is glowingly fawning, no matter what.

I'm kind of curious if they realize that Scott Lobdell came on my podcast that second time and voluntarily took fan questions.

Only to nicely ask me to read the worst ones. it's sad that they don't do the tiniest research into the people or programs they're saying no to.

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Lord Simian wrote:You always could, they don't care about the forums. But DC doesn't want US doing it, because the only type of coverage a website should give a product is glowingly fawning, no matter what.

I'm kind of curious if they realize that Scott Lobdell came on my podcast that second time and voluntarily took fan questions.

Only to nicely ask me to read the worst ones. it's sad that they don't do the tiniest research into the people or programs they're saying no to.

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achilles wrote:Wow, just when I thought DC couldn't get any more stupid, or be bigger dicks, they prove me wrong again.

BTW, what did you guys do to piss of Jane?

When he put out that short film last year, SOMEONE posted it on the front page, excitedly and happily mentioning that THAT'S how the Punisher should be. Which got US an email titled "Hey, asshole!" From Jane himself, asking why we would spoil the films ending.

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achilles wrote:Wow, just when I thought DC couldn't get any more stupid, or be bigger dicks, they prove me wrong again.

BTW, what did you guys do to piss of Jane?

When he put out that short film last year, SOMEONE posted it on the front page, excitedly and happily mentioning that THAT'S how the Punisher should be. Which got US an email titled "Hey, asshole!" From Jane himself, asking why we would spoil the films ending.